I honestly don't understand why use apt anywhere. Why don't always use apt-get so everything's consistent and you don't have to keep two apis for the same job on your head?

[–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

For interactive use, apt provides a nicer interface. I can easily see why some people would prefer that.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago

Yes but apt-get isn't a seperate package from apt, just a seperate command. All of the apt-* commands are part of the same package, which is now Apt-3.0. This isn't really what the user above you was asking.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Never knew that! Always wondered what this apt-get was, supposed it was some older alias or something

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

It kind of is. For a very long time it was the only option.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 2 points 2 days ago

All well and good, but that doesn't cover "better". Does this mean apt-get et. al. were improved, or just apt? Where's the documentation for this "improvement"?

Hence my question.

[–] who@feddit.org -4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=apt+3.0

Edit for those who couldn't be bothered to click through the first result:

https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/-/blob/main/debian/changelog

[–] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

We really need a user friendly way to show packages that are really manually installed by the user (some automatically installed package are marked as manually installed, see the answers to this question).

even nix interface is known as being kinda bad but you still have a easy way to do this.

[–] unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 days ago

Parallel downloads finally?

[–] astrsk@fedia.io 2 points 2 days ago

I still think I’ll stick with nala as my apt front-end but hopefully this will be a more robust backend.